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Planning commission to open public hearing on narrow landscape ordinance changes tied to state water rules; staff previews water-preservation element
Summary
The Grand County Planning Commission agreed to move four targeted landscape-ordinance changes to a public hearing and received an information briefing on the state-mandated water-preservation element, including state targets to cut per-capita water use.
The Grand County Planning Commission agreed at its meeting to place a set of narrow landscape-ordinance amendments on the agenda for a public hearing at its next meeting, staff said. The amendments would add four water-conservation provisions requested by the state Department of Water Resources to qualify property owners for a turf buyback (SOD buyback) program.
Commission staff presented the item as an information-to-discuss agenda entry and also previewed a separate information-only briefing on the county—s required water-preservation element, which staff said must be adopted under state law by the end of the year.
The landscape change is limited to the subsection of the county—s landscaping ordinance identified on page two of the packet, staff…
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